SHAMEFUL NEGLECT.
Per Press ’ Association;, CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday
Ovaries' ami Alice Hankins were charged at the Magistrate’s Court with wilfully neglecting a sevenyears’ child in their custody, named Charles Leonard Leaman. Sub-In-spector Dwyer stated that the child ;was found by the police sleeping on a bitter, cold night in an outhouse f (belonging to accused, who stated > ihe boy was the illegitimate child of Mrs Hankins. When found in the outhouse, he was covered with some flax and three dirty corn-sacks, and had no singlet; his shirt was all ■ torn, his feet swollen with chilWains, the pillow was two ' bricks, and he was stiff with cold. He had •slept there 'a fortnight. The mother told a constable -she was tired of the child, and it would he a good iob if'he was dead. The Magistrate ■said if the facts were as stated, the ■ease Should ;bc treated as an indictable offence. Sub-Inspector Dwyer ■said the facts could he strongly borne out by evidence. The case was adjourned till Friday, and instructions given to the police to lay an information as for an indictable ■ofleuee. The boy is now at the Samaritan Home.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 964, 10 August 1903, Page 3
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191SHAMEFUL NEGLECT. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 964, 10 August 1903, Page 3
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